Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-07
CORS[ChNA GETS IT.
The Commissioners Appointed to
Locate the State Orphan Asylum
Render Their Decision.
a Majority Report Made In Favor OF
Corsicana, and Minority Report
In Favor of Pilot Point.
The Minority Report Recognizes tho Legal
fty of The Majority Report and the CUES
ton is Regarded as Settled.
Special to the Gazette.

SpeClal 10 tDe OdZeIte'
AUSTIN, TEX, Oct. The commits !
sioners appointed to locate the State
Orphan Asylum finally rendered their de-
cision to-day. After travelling forty days
over the state and spending $1,000 they
have chosen CorsicaGa. The commission
was divided es to the different points,
but all united in the determination that
Austin should not have it. The majority
report is as follows:
Hon. l. g. Ross, Governor, Austin, Tex:
DEAR SIR-The undersigned, appointed
by you aCommission TO select site for the
State Orphan Asylum, provided for IN the
act approved April 4, 1887, have the honor
TO report that they met and organ
lied on the 10TH of last august. Imme-
dlstely through five OF the principal news
papers published in different sections of
the state they Invited the towns therein to
compete for the location OF the asylum
as contemplated by said act, and on the
next day they began personal inspection
Of, and inquiry into the advantages and
claims of such OF the towns and cities as
they had been or were afterwards by let
ter, kilograms or through committees Of
citizens appointed for the purpose, ad-
vised would compete for the location
Of the asylum and in the order named
| they visited Pilot Point, Denton, Fort
| Worth, Granbury, Wealherford, Alya-
RADIO, Dallas, Terrell, Piano, Sherman,
Bcnham, Paris, Blossom Prairie, Pales-
tine, Tyler. Corsicana, Temple, Bolton,
Lampssas, Santa Anna, Brennan, CuerO,
| San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin.
| They made careful inquiry into the sd
vantages specified OF said act 30 be taken
iato consideration, possessed closely by
each of the places named, end in nearly
every one Of them were kindly aided by
courteous citizens in their en-
desvor to obtain such infOrma-
ton es WAS needed in cohGec-
ton with q personal inspection OF the
towns ard their surroundings. From
such inspection ard information, after
careful consideration, the commissioners
are Of the opinion that the town OF Corsi
cana, II the county Of Navarro, possessing
the combined requisites OF Accessibility
by railroad, health and fertility OF soil
is the most suitable site for the location
Of he asylum, aud believing that tht
interests of the state Will be subserye(
by It's location there, under the AUTHORITY
Of eaid Get, they select and designate EaiC
: Corsicana as a site for the S ute Orphs!
: Asylum. j. f LABATT, Chairman,
II. G. CLEAvER.
l The following was the minority report
To His Excellency Govern or Ross
\ The undersigned commissioner to 10
cate the State Orphan Asylum, with du
r regard 20 the honorable commissioner
above set forth, as we'll IS to Corscant
- would respectfully set forth that ne Cal
not concur in the foregoing selection Q
: against Pilot Point in the final ballot. fC
g the following sacred AID unseltish rel
n sons:
= /. Thst North Texas in point Of taXa
- Fble values aud population bears the lars
g est burden OF the state government an
n has not one single Institution of II
- state.
= 2. Corsicana is within the space Of or
- county OF tse Rusk PeniteDtiary, and {
=; the west within one and & half counts
y, OF the State II .formstory.
: s. The chosen location is upon an az
- joining tract OF land, and the confer
plated site WITHIN few hundred yards
~ the already established State Orphan
= Home CT the Independent Order OF o.
u Fellows, which will surely conflict
a. local privileges and public sympathi
~ and charities which belong wholly to tt
IL State Orphan Asylum.
&c 4. In en- offered compromise betWe
10 Alvarado, Denton or Pilot Point, in :
latter we cain altitude over Corsicans
.st PIG feet, with building stone and t
he $50 acre donation worth 100000 an
raj health unsurpassed, free from fear
lot future contagion and in the bosom vi
all best farming and Horticultural section
he the state. Yet il &S much as II WAS pT
he viied in the ORGANIZATION of The hos
ue .h,+ ,..oio,;4,, 20 t,,,, could ha 1o0sI @
nd lAat : AhJoIlVy VI I"' SoSlH w tNS~+
p" final in it's decision, We waive any Gle
re- | touching the legality of said maiGri
-, p.epoo+,,1Iv- cuhu,i+4od u N Or1vEp
II. 49, ~
nd CorslCsna taxes TIE cske.